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These books are ranked using the setting labels extracted for Swashbucklers.
Setting labels used: small town, modern day, Christmas setting, 1980s nostalgia, England, Manchester, portal fantasy, alternate worlds, other realms, holiday setting
Focused on “winter setting” where exact label matches exist.
This does not mean the books share the same plot, setting, quality, or difficulty. It means their setting embeddings are close.
In a winter-bound small town, two longtime allies must protect a wild-magic child from demons before time runs out.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary America · small town · rural America · winter setting · Christmas setting · Hopewell · alternative earth · pre-Shannara world · urban fantasy setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1984
A girl who alone notices the letter D vanishing must cross into a strange winter world to restore language.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern England · wintery land · alternate world · portal fantasy · small coastal town · invented secondary world
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1784
A struggling middle-aged presenter is pulled into his grandmother’s childhood fantasy world, only to find it decaying and dangerous.
Why this is here
Setting labels: England · contemporary setting · early pandemic · COVID era · fantasy realm · magical world · winter setting · alternate reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2135
A futuristic detective’s holiday is shattered when an escaped serial killer targets her and everyone who helped jail him.
Why this is here
Setting labels: futuristic world · near-future city · holiday period · Christmas · New Year · winter setting
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2233
Rediscovered early newspaper stories show Terry Pratchett’s comic imagination taking shape long before Discworld.
Why this is here
Setting labels: 1970s · 1980s · newspaper culture · small-town England · Blackbury · Morpork · prehistoric times · Christmas setting · Wild West · folkloric Britain · alternate reality · fantastical reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1960
A boy's family is drawn into a bizarre struggle with seven town-bound wizard siblings over 2,000 missing words.
Why this is here
Setting labels: small English town · contemporary world · urban setting · Britain · 1980s UK · city-as-system · constrained town · alternate-real world · time-bent reality
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.1963
A teen guardian of a magical wood must find her missing father while protecting time-lost travelers and a dangerous secret.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern day · present day · enchanted forest · backyard setting · portal fantasy · time-slip world · liminal space · day-night split · eighteenth century England
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2037
Seven surreal fairy-tale retellings push modern characters through strange quests, hauntings, and transformations.
Why this is here
Setting labels: contemporary world · modern day · futuristic settings · post-apocalyptic future · airport hotel · Vermont woods · remote house · Christmas setting · Hell · liminal spaces · far-off planets · urban fantasy
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2051
An ex-soldier joins a secret job for good pay and finds himself fighting alongside Norse gods as Ragnarok looms.
Why this is here
Setting labels: Modern day · Contemporary Britain · Northern England · Snowstorm · Winter apocalypse · Asgard · Midgard · Norse cosmology · Real-world with mythic overlay · Alternate present
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2110
When their parents are frozen and magic surfaces, teenage twins race through a bizarre hidden world to save their family.
Why this is here
Setting labels: modern day · alternate reality · magical world · time travel · computer simulation · Victorian England · wizard community · amusement park
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2171
A reluctant teen is pulled through a portal into a parallel world and must help stop a tyrant and a coming war.
Why this is here
Setting labels: alternate dimension · parallel worlds · fantasy realm · imaginary places · cosmic setting · time travel setting · subway portal · medieval world · territories · snowy wasteland
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2176
A half-elf girl in a war-torn steampunk world finds purpose, invention, and a path toward peace.
Why this is here
Setting labels: post-apocalyptic world · magic and steam · wartime setting · small village · secluded valley · industrializing world · fantasy world · alternate world · medieval feel · sky/air travel
Semantic match: ranked by setting
Distance: 0.2177
